Product design at ought.org
Makes visual essays about UX, programming, and anthropology.
Adores digital gardening 🌱, end-user development, and embodied cognition
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Dug through an old external drive last week and found a long lost gem!
In high school I went through a phase of elaborately redesigning my desktop and keeping a screenshot record each time.
Much skeuomorphism. Many novelty icons. I miss this time.
Every time I directly check the replies to my own tweets, up to 50% of them are new to me and didn't show up at all in notifications.
Twitter is having lots of small, subtle system failures, but this one seems egregious.
Whole conversations left hanging! Sacrilege!
Best part about listening to podcasts on a run is the strong visual-spatial memory linked to points in the pod.
Ideas live at locations. A point about debugging tools lives at the brick bridge. An idea for spatial interfaces goes with the blue corner house.
If I re-listen it feels like being back at the exact physical location.
Reverse works too. I can run a route years later and specific places trigger podcast memories.
Embodiment is wild.
Logic extends to long form articles too.
Idea guy puts "how to understand the Chinese economy" into LM article generator. Posts it to the web.
Other idea guys use their LM summariser to read bullet point list of banal takes on the Chinese economy.
No one ever reads the article
Personal communication when we all have personalised language models embedded in email.
OG idea not mine. Saw something akin to this on twitter last week but can't find it now! Recreated for @[email protected]
Point me to the original if you know it.
If you currently dislike running because it's hard & it hurts you might be doing it wrong! Get a HR strap/watch and lots of audiobooks and slow jog like you're 80.
Disclaimer: I don't race. I'm not a marathoner. I'm just want to have a good time and optimise longevity/QOL.
I've been running wrong for a decade 🤦♀️
It turns out if you run slower. Like, *much* slower. You enjoy it more, run for longer, and improve all the good health shit and mental joy that running is for
Used to aim for 5m/km average. Now I just try to keep HR around 150 BPM...
Switching from pace-focus to heart-rate-focus reframed everything. Used to tap out at ~25mins but going slower makes it easy to do 60m.
Default assumption before was always try to run faster = heart works harder = surely better? Very science.
Turns out endurance is underrated
Doing another round of the Future of Code meetup in London! Feb 10th at @[email protected]
If you're interested in making programming more accessible, humane, and weird, you'll fit in well here.
If you're new to FoC, read more here: https://futureofcoding.org/
